David Lee Labby

online portfolio
---- paintings, drawings, journals
---- documenting a passion for mark making
---- using words to express my passage on this spinning rock

Diversity Gallery & Studios 2000-2004
---- history of a non-commercial art space on Louisiana's west edge
---- the value of sharing your creative passions with your community
---- choosing the principles of cooperation instead of competition in the visual arts

Gallery One Ellleven 2008...
---- an artist managed cooperative in Leesville, Louisiana's Historic District


...some of the things I love...
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.............. our instinct to create................ the natural world.................... animal spirits.....................

"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself in a kind of track that has been there the whole while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living." - Joseph Campbell

"Only by identifying our interests and pleasures with those of others can we find real happiness."
Declaration of Principles - New Llano Cooperative Colony - 1917
New Llano, Louisiana


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Kisatchie Bayou
Kisatchie National Forest (see picture above) is one of my favorite places on the planet. If I could figure out a way to live in the forest, I would.
Busterbrat, the "super campin' dawg"
(see picture above) Yes, this dog actually has his own webpage. :)